The Way The World Works - Part 8

Summary: God creates a partnership to complete us. A woman, created of flesh brought to life with the breath of God.

Genesis 2:20.5-25
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said,

"This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man."

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

Application: God goes through all of his creation, but finds no suitable helper for man. No relationship worthy of the support that man needs. So out of man, God creates woman. Of one flesh with man and undeniably a part of him. In this passage God makes it clear that he intended for man and woman to be a partnership. Brought to life by the breath of God. God tells us right from the beginning that marriage and the relationship between a man and a woman is under his blessing and is a strong part of our development and growth.
To me, this is the first marriage, with God giving us away as the father. He says himself that a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. This is not God's ticket to vanish, leaving man in the hands of woman. But it is God's ticket to see man completed in body and in spirit. Man's partnership is man's completion, the partnership between man and woman being the essential ingredient in God's creation of humanity. He even leaves them with a parting wisdom for their marriage in mentioning that both man and woman were naked and they felt no shame.
This final wisdom of God in this passage is the basic truth of marriage. To be naked to one another, without secrets and without shame. To fully understand the entirety of your mate and be one flesh. To share all that is intimate and expose yourself completely to the other person. If we make a choice to be the people that God intended us to be from creation, there should be no reason to feel shame. We should be delighted to be just as God intended... what do we have to hide?